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  Croatia denies migrant border attacks after new reports of brutal pushbacks

  

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  Instances of alleged beatings and sexual assaults against asylum seekers continue to blight special unitsCroatia has dismissed allegations of violence by its border patrol after new reports emerged this week of border police allegedly beating, robbing and sexually abusing migrants.On Wednesday the head of home affairs for the European Commission, Ylva Johansson, said that she was taking the allegations “very seriously”. Continue reading...

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  A Bosnian winter: families bid to reach Europe's heart – in pictures

  

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  Through mud and ice, parents and children from Afghanistan and elsewhere attempt the desperate crossing into...

  Through mud and ice, parents and children from Afghanistan and elsewhere attempt the desperate crossing into Croatia. Few make it. Most are reportedly pushed back, time and again, often brutally. The Guardian followed some migrants on their exhausting journeys Read more: migrant families on the perilous Balkan route Continue reading...

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  ‘Police searched my baby's nappy': migrant families on the perilous Balkan route

  

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  ‘The game’ of crossing the Croatian-Bosnian border with children often results in degrading treatment and violent...

  ‘The game’ of crossing the Croatian-Bosnian border with children often results in degrading treatment and violent pushbacks, refugees sayAn Afghan girl pulls her baby sister along in a pram through the mud and snow. Saman is six and baby Darya is 10 months old. They and their family have been pushed back into Bosnia 11 times by the Croatian police, who stripped Darya bare...

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  EU border force head faces calls to quit over allegations he 'misled' MEPs

  

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  Frontex director Fabrice Leggeri accused over failure to appoint officers to protect people’s rights, with home...

  Frontex director Fabrice Leggeri accused over failure to appoint officers to protect people’s rights, with home affairs commissioner calling for ‘clarity’The head of the EU’s border force is under growing pressure to stand down after being accused by the European commission of acting unlawfully and giving misleading evidence to MEPs.The allegations against Fabrice Leggeri, the executive director of Frontex, relate to the agency’s failure...

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